Time to update your resume: App makes LinkedIn a dating website

LinkedIn, arguably, has held the post of most buttoned-up social network. But LinkedUp! is an app that turns that place you post your resume into something more titillating: a dating website.

It’s a place for blind dates instead of blind ambition.

LinkedUp! connects to your LinkedIn profile and allows the user to judge a would-be date by appearance, but also biographical information such as profession and education. It is essentially a Tinder that pulls from LinkedIn, rather than Facebook. Swipe right if a person meets a set of criterion in the looks department, but also even narrow standards like education and professional prestige. The app also shows users their shared LinkedIn connections. (Like any other dating site, it seems like it could be pretty awkward to run into someone you know professionally.)

CEO Max Fischer said he got the idea for the app after he noticed that people were already using the career networking site to find dates (himself included).

“LinkedUp! users get a very true sense of who someone is, where they are from, where they go to school and what do they do, giving users a sense of comfort and trust,” Fischer said.

Dating startups like LinkedUp!, Tinder and Hinge all seek to expand the dating pool — introducing people to others who might be a more likely “match” than a stranger in a bar or that random coworker your well-meaning friend sets you up with. At the same time, though, every new dating startup seems to also make that pool shallower.